August 1, 2006, Tuesday

Rabbi Louis Jacobs was an internationally renowned scholar of Judaism whose seemingly clear path to the post of chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth was blocked by the Orthodox establishment more than 40 years ago.

February 23, 2006, Thursday

OVER the passage of time -- 2 years, 5 years, 10 years -- the appetite for civic commemorations for the dead may fade, but religious rituals remain and, psychologists say, help sustain the living. That is true both for those who perished in major...

September 7, 2003, Sunday

Paul Moore Jr., the retired Episcopal bishop of New York who for more than a decade was the most formidable liberal Christian voice in the city, died yesterday at home in Greenwich Village. He was 83. In recent months, the bishop had said that he...

May 2, 2003, Friday

Zvi Kolitz, a film and theatrical producer and a writer whose short story ''Yosl Rakover Talks to God'' became a classic of Holocaust literature, died Sept. 29 in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in Manhattan. While living in Israel in the early...

Here are glimpses of some of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. DANNY PESCE Planning to Break the News Danny Pesce sought routine; he lived it day by die-cast day. Show up early at Cantor Fitzgerald. Stay late. Ride...

September 1, 2002, Sunday

The Rev. Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, whose experience with an abusive father inspired him to build a worldwide Christian ministry that demanded sexual and social responsibility from men, died on Tuesday in Grapevine, Tex. He was 79 and lived in nearby...